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Argonne’s Sustainability Program works across the laboratory to support the purchase of goods and services that are both cost effective and environmentally sensitive.

These efforts address the Department of Energy’s goals for sustainable acquisition and procurement, which is defined as acquiring goods and services to create and maintain benefits in energy security, environment, health, and economic longevity for future generations.

Argonne’s goal is for products and services to be energy-efficient, water-efficient, bio-based, environmentally preferable, and non-ozone depleting, and to contain recycled content and non-toxic or less-toxic alternatives. Argonne actively tracks sustainable acquisition and procurement and works to improve efforts each year.

Argonne also tracks recycled content for products, supplies and services:

Argonne’s Sustainable Acquisition efforts also improve purchases of materials to manage Argonne’s 1,500 acres of natural resources. To support bio-based and environmentally preferred objectives, Argonne will use seeds that were locally grown and harvested to improve habitats around the site.